dead body
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In "The Gallerist" -- starring Oscar winners Natalie Portman and Da'Vine Joy Randolph, along with Jenna Ortega and Sterling K. Brown -- a desperate curator tries to sell a dead body at Art Basel Miami.
From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026
Written by Imogen Edwards-Jones with James Patterson, it starts like many thrillers: Marilyn Monroe’s housekeeper finds her dead body and calls her doctors.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026
Having fashioned a creature from dead body parts, the scientist recoils from the result, which appears to him to be a monster of “unparalleled barbarity,” and abandons his construction.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
“Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living,” Gai said.
From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025
It was like a dead body in the way it seemed to draw his eyes.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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